Comment on Brain Preservation

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:51:08 GMT

My brain that makes me me, stops working. That makes the thing that is me cease to exist. The continuity stops there. The person that you revive 200 years into the future may have the same state that I left with, but it wouldn't be me in the sense that makes you want to preserve "yourself" via cryonics in the first place. It defeats its own purpose.

When a wood frog freezes itself for the winter does it unfreeze as a different frog?

I have replicas of myself and relatives on The Sims 3 that I identify with. He acts the same as if I was in that situation, so he is in effect a copy of me.

What? If your friends asked questions to both you and your Sims 3 replica, you think they wouldn't be able to tell which was which? It's clearly not anywhere close to a copy of you.

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